Modeling the score distributions of relevant and non-relevant documents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5766 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 152-163

  Kanoulas, Evangelos ^a   Pavlu, Virgil ^a   Dai, Keshi ^a   Aslam, Javed A ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL MODELING; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN MODEL; GOODNESS OF FIT; MIXTURE OF GAUSSIANS; NON-RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; RETRIEVAL APPLICATIONS; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; VARIATIONAL INFERENCE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 70350610822     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04417-5_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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